# Plumber.News

> Plumber.News is a digital marketing and business consulting service for trades and home-service businesses in Canada. We are not a contractor and do not install, repair or service anything. Owners and managers of plumbing companies in every Canadian province and territory

Plumber.News is part of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, a Canadian business headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by Ali Sedighi, MBA. Coverage: Canada.

Contact: call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. There are no forms: call, text or email only.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://plumber.news/): Plumber.News reports the codes, programs and market data that affect Canadian plumbing companies, with sources and dates, and helps owners turn that knowledge into calls through local search, ads, websites and content.
- [Services](https://plumber.news/services/): Most plumbing companies need the four services in a particular order: be findable locally, make the website convert, buy urgent searches carefully, then publish content that answers what customers are reading about.
- [Areas](https://plumber.news/areas/): We report on and work with plumbing companies in every province and territory. Each region page brings together the code and safety authorities, apprenticeship bodies, programs and construction data that matter there, as of October 2026.
- [About](https://plumber.news/about/): Plumber.News is a Canadian newsroom and marketing service for plumbing companies, one of the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group's brands, run from Vancouver, BC, under Ali Sedighi, MBA.
- [Results](https://plumber.news/results/): Our published results come from HVAC and heating companies. They are not plumbing results, but the methods behind them are the ones we use for plumbing clients, and this page explains what carries over.
- [Pricing](https://plumber.news/pricing/): Plumbing marketing plans begin at $1,999 a month, or $1,499 a month when paid annually, with GST/HST added for Canadian clients. Cancel on 30 days' notice; eligible trades businesses get a free first 30-minute consultation.
- [FAQ](https://plumber.news/faq/): The questions plumbing owners ask us most, about cost, contracts, ownership, timelines and results, and about how the newsroom works.
- [Contact](https://plumber.news/contact/): Call or text (604) 632-4959, or email Ali@Sedighi.ca. Hours are Mon–Fri 9–6 Pacific. We usually reply within one business day.

## Services
- [Ads for plumbers](https://plumber.news/services/emergency-ads/): Paid search can put a plumbing company at the top of results today. It pays when it is aimed at urgent searches in your real service area, during hours someone answers, and measured by booked jobs.
- [Industry content](https://plumber.news/services/industry-content/): When codes, programs or rules change, customers search for what it means. We write plain-language, dated, sourced pages for your site so your company is the local answer.
- [Local search](https://plumber.news/services/local-search/): Local search puts a plumbing company in the map results where urgent customers choose. It is built from a complete profile, accurate service-area pages, honest reviews and tracked calls.
- [Plumbing websites](https://plumber.news/services/plumbing-websites/): A plumbing website should turn a stressed visitor on a phone into a call or text within seconds, then answer the questions that stop a planned-job customer from calling.

## Coverage
- [Alberta](https://plumber.news/areas/alberta/): Alberta adopts the National Plumbing Code province-wide, with the 2020 edition in force since April 2023 and the 2025 edition reported for January 2027. Two big, competitive cities and a hard winter shape plumbing demand.
- [British Columbia](https://plumber.news/areas/british-columbia/): British Columbia's plumbing market splits between a dense, wet Lower Mainland and Island and a colder Interior and North. The province runs its own plumbing code on the national model, and its rebate rules changed in July 2026.
- [Manitoba](https://plumber.news/areas/manitoba/): Manitoba is a Winnipeg-centred plumbing market with a heating season among the longest in southern Canada. Gas and oil-burner licensing runs through the Office of the Fire Commissioner, and the province was first to sign a federal affordability retrofit agreement.
- [New Brunswick](https://plumber.news/areas/new-brunswick/): New Brunswick licenses plumbing through the province's Technical Inspection Services, has three main city markets in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton, and serves customers in English and French.
- [Newfoundland and Labrador](https://plumber.news/areas/newfoundland-and-labrador/): Newfoundland and Labrador's plumbing market is concentrated around St. John's, with long distances to everywhere else. Electricity heats most homes, and a new federal affordability retrofit agreement was announced in October 2026.
- [Nova Scotia](https://plumber.news/areas/nova-scotia/): Nova Scotia treats plumbing as a compulsory certified trade, has one dominant market in Halifax, and still has many oil-heated homes, which keeps the province's retrofit programs relevant to plumbing and heating firms.
- [Ontario](https://plumber.news/areas/ontario/): Ontario is Canada's largest plumbing market, with $5.1 billion in building permits in August 2026 alone. The 2024 Building Code has applied since 2025, and municipal lead service programs create steady private-side work in older cities.
- [Prince Edward Island](https://plumber.news/areas/prince-edward-island/): PEI requires plumbing companies to hold a Plumbing Contractor's Licence, has a small market centred on Charlottetown and Summerside, and saw several of its heat pump rebates close in 2026.
- [Quebec](https://plumber.news/areas/quebec/): Quebec plumbing companies market under the strictest language rules in Canada, need RBQ licensing for construction work and serve a province where most homes heat with electricity. Permits reached $2.9 billion in August 2026.
- [Saskatchewan](https://plumber.news/areas/saskatchewan/): Saskatchewan moved plumbing permits to its Technical Safety Authority in 2022, has two main city markets in Saskatoon and Regina, and a long, very cold winter that makes freeze protection a core plumbing service.
- [Territories](https://plumber.news/areas/territories/): The three territories are small, remote plumbing markets with extreme winters, separate permit offices and, in Nunavut, legal requirements to advertise in Inuktut. The NWT passed a new Technical Safety Act in March 2026.

## Guides and articles
- [News](https://plumber.news/news/): Every story here is built on a public source we loaded ourselves, carries the source's real date, and ends with what it means for how a plumbing company runs and markets itself.
- [Apprentices in 2024](https://plumber.news/news/apprenticeship-registrations-2024-plumbers/): Statistics Canada reported 101,541 new apprenticeship registrations in 2024, the highest since the series began in 2008, while certifications were nearly flat at 46,971. Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters were named as a driver in Alberta and BC.
- [BC Codes 2024](https://plumber.news/news/bc-building-code-2024-plumbing/): British Columbia's 2024 codes came into effect on March 8, 2024. The BC Plumbing Code 2024 is the National Plumbing Code plus BC amendments, and the province has extended the effective date for in-stream projects to March 8, 2027.
- [BC Red Seal exam change](https://plumber.news/news/bc-plumber-red-seal-exam-2023-rsos/): Since April 25, 2025, plumber candidates writing the interprovincial Red Seal exam through SkilledTradesBC get an exam aligned to the 2023 Plumber Red Seal Occupational Standard, with the 2020 National Plumbing Code supplied.
- [August 2026 permits](https://plumber.news/news/building-permits-august-2026/): Statistics Canada reported on October 14, 2026 that the value of building permits rose $1.1 billion to $13.6 billion in August, almost all of it from multi-unit residential permits.
- [Green claims rules](https://plumber.news/news/competition-act-environmental-claims-plumbing/): On March 26, 2026, Bill C-15 received Royal Assent and removed the Competition Act's requirement that environmental claims about a business be backed by an internationally recognized methodology. The general ban on misleading advertising still applies.
- [NPC 2025 published](https://plumber.news/news/national-plumbing-code-2025-published/): The National Research Council released the 2025 National Plumbing Code of Canada in December 2025. It is not in force anywhere until a province or territory adopts it, but the changes will reach your crews and your quotes.
- [Ontario 2024 code](https://plumber.news/news/ontario-2024-building-code-plumbing/): Ontario's 2024 Building Code came into effect on January 1, 2025, and every permit application since April 1, 2025 has had to use it. Part 7, the plumbing part, was among those revised.
- [Toronto lead report](https://plumber.news/news/toronto-lead-water-service-report-2025/): Toronto Water's annual lead report for 2025, posted in May 2026, estimates that about 13,664 public-side lead water services were left at the end of 2025 and repeats the public health advice to replace both sides of a lead service together.

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